Preliminary Task- Audience research

As a way of gathering feedback from my target audience, I decided to carry out a questionnaire with a small sample of students from my media class. In the main task of this unit, I will consider my sample much more carefully to give me a more balanced view, from a selection of my target audience, depending on what kind of music magazine I choose to do. This small sample from my media class is only representative for one year of the school, and really I should have asked people form each year group to fill one in, but just for the purpose of this preliminary task I used a convenience sample.
I jotted down possible questions I'd like to ask in my questionnaire from what and how many cover lines to have, to the background of cover. When I typed my questionnaire up, I ended up using all these questions as I didn't have many and I figured all of them would give me valuable responses from my audience that I could use.
The results of my questionnaire are as follows;

1. Which name do you prefer? - Out of the 8 people I asked, 7 preferred Monky Pi to Habit. This confirms what I predicted previously, that Habit might not be suitable because the background behind would not be understood, and that Monky Pi would be liked because of the obvious personal connection it has to the students, as it uses their language to represent the school, therefore I will use Monky Pi as my name.


2. Which stories would you prefer to see in the magazine? - Out of new colourful uniforms, online reporting, school fashion, tips for sixth form, blackboards return and upcoming school events, uniforms, fashion and sixth form tips were the most popular but only by slightly. I think this question was fairly bias as tips for sixth form may not have been so popular had I used a sample from all the years in school, and I used colourful to describe the new uniforms, which could be interpreted as me showing my values to the reader and therefore influencing them. However, I will still use these stories on my magazine cover.


3. Which background do you prefer? - The choice was between the theme coloured stars, stripes of plain grey background. It was an even split between stars and stripes, so I have chosen to use the star as I think it will be easier to work around when creating my cover, and still show it clearly.


4. Should the student on the front be wearing uniform or non-uniform? - Again 7 out of 8 thought the student should be wearing uniform, which is a positive response, as hopefully it suggests students aren't ashamed of the uniform being associated with the school, however because all the sample I asked don't even wear uniform anymore, maybe the result isn't that valid.


5. How many stories should be advertised on the cover? - Out of 1,2,3,4,5 and 5+, 3 was the most popular suggesting my audience don't want the cover to be too busy or too empty, so hopefully 3 smaller cover lines along with my main cover line will fill the cover nicely.

I will take into account these responses as I go on to develop my cover further.